Al-Hamîd: The Praised

"To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and on earth for surely Allah--He is free of all wants, the Praised (Al-Hamîd)" (22:64).

Allah is the Praised by virtue of Allah's praising Himself from all eternity and by virtue of human beings' praising Allah to all eternity. This fact of Allah being praised stems from Allah's qualities of majesty, exaltation, and perfection in relation to or from the point of view of those who make mention of Allah. The essence of praise is in remembering and reciting the qualities of perfection inasmuch as Allah is Perfect.